Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-01
new ENGLAND NEWS.


it is thought his mind was affected by his
head being injured in an accident some time
ago, He became desponlent at being out CT
work and unable to secure employment and
the attempt on his life followed. BARLEY
was So years old, and his life was insured for
$1,000 in the Knights of Honor He left
note to his wife in which he said: My
dear Wife: die that you may live have
no work any moro. l am crazy. Look out
for Lilly. God bless you both. You will
have $20O0 and hope you will take care
of it.n
Yale defeated Pennsylvania by five lengths
at New London.
All efforts to float the grounded steamer
Providence has been abandoned until the 9TH
of July.
Edward H. Collins, a locomotive fireman
in the employ of the Fitchburg Railroad
Company, while at work in the railroad yard,
was struck by switching engine, receiving
severe internal injuries.
The high water in the Merrimac has con-
tinuel, and the pressure of the large nuns
Der Of logs and the great volume of water is
such that the centre of the nsw Lawrence
bridge was washed away, and the rest will
probably follow The blow is hard one to
the city, the structure having been COM
pleted less than a week. From the dam for
a mile up the river only mass of logs can
be seen.
Patrick Moran, we'll known tea dealer
at Lawrence, Mass, while ejecting tenants
from tenement was savagely attacked by
them. They knocked Moran down and beat
him with rock Had neighbors not intar~
fered there probably would have been o
murder.
A Contoocook, N. H., dispatch says: The
Contoocook and Warner rivers have been
rising since the recent storm, and there is
much submerged grass and crop land A
boom at Davisville broke away and mum,
ber of logs went down tie Warner river,
The water in some intervale fields is loot
or more in depth.
While William Collins was driving a
horse on Commercial wharf, Boston, the
animal became balky, and Collins fastened
arope to thu amin IL tongue, and in his at
tempt to make the beast move, he pulled the
tongue completely out of the horses head.
He was arrested. Tie horse was killed by
members of the society with long name.
Gas works and a horse railroad are inns
water pipes are being rapidly laid in the
streets.
The failure to supply enough doughnuts
to the soldiers who took part in the New
Haven celebration caus ID so much growing
that committee was appointed to find out
where they all went to. The committee
gravely report that the scarcity was caused
by the members Of two veteran organiza-
tions using the festive nuts in q game of base
ball.
All the liquor establishments In Marlboro
have been closed.
Gaudaur trains at Worcester for the 4th
of July regatta.
The boot and shoe factory Of T. II. Burt &
Co. in Randolph will open itsdoors on Mon
day, and all former employees will be per-
nlittod to resume work.
Mr., W, L. Douglass, the Brockton shoe
man, has lately contracted for advertise
ments in papers whose combined circulation
reaches the grand total Of over 40, 900, 900, or
nearly the entire population of the United
States This is the largest contract eve'
placed for advertising in this country,
John Murphy of Dover, N. H., for the
past three years an inmate of the county
almshouse, makes charges against Supt
William 7. Wentworth. He claims that
Wentworth has exercised great cruelty to"
ward him and the other inmates; also that
Wentworth has sent men to work for
farmers, and has pocketed the proceeds in,
stead of turning it over to the county.
Charges of cruelty were preferred against
Supt Wentworth five years ago, but fell
through. The county commissioners de,
clined to act on Murphy's petition.
AT er July II the law recently passed to
prevent illegal peddling and begging by
minors will be in force. This Law provides
a fine Of $500 or punishment by inprison>
ment six months, for any parent or other
person, who employs IN nor under the age
of IS years, in peddling without a license,
when license is required by law, Or in
begging, or who having the care or Gus
tody of such minor permits him to engage
in such employment.
The new Boston Globe building is valued
at S3l5000.
A scheme is being agtated for the con-
nection of Marlboro and Hudson by belt
line of electric railroad. The distance is
about four miles, and the present railroad
connection between the two places is fur
nished by the Marlboro branch of the
Fitchburg railroad,
The Harvard University eight>oarod
crew was victorious over Columbia college
ia the four-mile race at New London,
There is a jam of logs at Skowhegan, Me-,
miles long, 25 feet deep ald estinla. cd
10 contain 81, 900 feet Of lumber
| Worcester aldermen have reversed their
action regarding the postofiice site, and the
build ng will be erected on tho common.
1t is proposed to have a jabileo regatta
open to all tho world, TO occur at Halifax, N.
| s., during the summer
Smallpox has appeared among tho Italian
railroad lnborers at Greenville, Me
Yale College graduates, 81 IN III, for 1887.
| This is the largest class on record at that
college. The average percentage is the high,
1
Oscar Graves, sentenced for life for muir
der, has escaped from the Connecticut state
| prison.
Bates, Androscoggin and other mills al